Hrachia Adjarian
Academic
1876 – 1953
Who was Hrachia Adjarian?
Hrachia Adjarian was an ethnic Armenian linguist, etymologist, philologist, professor, Academic of Armenian Academy of Sciences, member of French Linguistic Association, and Czechoslovakian Institute of Oriental studies.
He studied at Sorbonne with Antoine Meillet and Strasbourg Universities. Acharian worked as a teacher in Ejmiatsin Gevorkian seminary, Shushi and Tehran. A survivor of the Armenian Genocide, he came to Yerevan in 1923, where he taught foreign languages, comparative grammar, and the history of the Armenian language at the Yerevan State University, where he headed a chair. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on Armenology, Armenian language and Oriental Languages.
The Armenian State Institute of Linguistics is named after him.
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- Born
- Mar 8, 1876
Constantinople - Religion
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Education
- University of Strasbourg
- University of Paris
- Died
- 1953
Yerevan
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on July 23, 2013
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